-. oftht Covenant. · 221 fo that he is not only Lord of the world in point of. right, but in fa[t ; h<~ving the power of all therein, from the finalldt rag. for cover-ing ~of nakednefs , even to tbe crowns anJ fceptres. This he himfelf witneff– ·eth, Mat. xxviii. 18.· ' All power is given unto me ·in heaven -and in earth/ Chap xi . .27. ' All things ·are delivered unto me of my Father.' Hence to en– courage his impoverifhed people, in their building of the fecond temple, he laith, . Hag. ii. 8. ~ The filver is mine, and the go.ld is ruins ,' namely, to give to them vvhom I wi ll. And that ,thefe are Cht ifi's words, appears from Ver 6. ,compared with Heb. xii. 2.6. )icl ordingly, from Pf<dm xxiv. 1. 'The eart h is .the Lord's, and..the fulnefs 1hereof,' the Apofile clear~ believers right to the creatures, 1 Cor, x. 25, 26. And thus he is fully furni!hed, for affording all manner of provifion to h1s people, in temporal things; and all proteftion from whatever dangers they can be in, while here. }he fun, moon, and fbrs; the earth, .fea, and air, with ~11 that in them is, are under hi$ hand, as -- the Trufiee of the covenant: ~nd he-can difpofe of them all, for rhe ends of the covenant, as the glory ?f God, and the welfare of his people do ' reqUtre. - Eighthly~ The covenant fulnefs ofpower over death and the gr:1ve is in ' his hand, whereby to diC1rm c1eath of its fling, and bring .about a gloriou~ ~efurreftion, 1, f~lith he, have the keys of heU and of de_at h, Rev. 'i. r~L Death goes tlt 1ough thf' world, as a mighty conqueror, whom none is ahle to 1efifi ; the grave follows, and no·ne tail keep back its prey, QOf caufe it to give it up again. But· the Medi~tor bath q.n ef- ,. f~[tual check uron them bo.th. They are not abfo– lute potentates, as mighty as they are : -there is on~ above them, to who~e orders they mun precifely flick. Death may indeed enter in, within the boundaries of the covenant, :;t,n,d ~arry off the covenant people as. well ~s' others; ·:but ·at the border it wu.U drop its . !Hn~
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